Word: drawned
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...began to hear the wild horns of disaster blowing more closely through the quietness. Among the papers of her grandfather she found letters saying that her father was the father also of two Negro girls and Stiggins, an idiot boy who lived over a stable in the town. Theodosia, drawn by a grim curiosity, spends long hours talking to them. On the night that Lethy, one of her half-sisters, kills the lover who has deserted her, Theodosia, seeing the parallel with her own experience, goes to the house made hateful to her by her father's unforgotten lusts...
Eventually he was persuaded to ask for 1,500,000 francs (about $60,000), but he refused to be drawn out about the food supply and the manufactured goods. The French Emissary said that he could not pay so much and the parley was adjourned until the Sheik could talk over the negotations with his chief...
...innocent!" The words came from a young man, his back against a wall. A moment later eight rifles spat fire and lead. The young man fell forward, dead. He was 28-year-old Alfredo Jauregui who, a week before, had drawn a black ballot† that meant death for the murder in 1917 of General Jose Manuel Pando, onetime President of Bolivia...
...ambitious program for enlarging and reorganizing intramural sports competition in the University has been drawn up by the Department of Physical Education which is forming an Intramural Council, to meet for the first time early next month...
...Drawings made with soap crayon on stone. Water applied adheres to the parts not drawn upon, after which ink adheres to the parts unwatered so that the drawing can be printed...